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Let us be merciful as well as just. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please. -- Tom Paxton
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished. -- Statius
And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not. -- Brom
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures. -- Plutarch
When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors. -- Chilon
When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors. -- Chilon
Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream. -- H. P. Lovecraft
To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast -- Ruskin Bond
I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother. -- Marie Lu
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. -- William Law
While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place. -- Timothy Keller
Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires. -- Khalil Gibran
Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors. -- Mary Faustina Kowalska
You want to be merciful. To stand in the light. I understand it. I admire it. But, my queen...Only the victors can be merciful. -- Joe Abercrombie
If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there -- T.H. White
If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith. -- Martin Luther
No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God. -- Jonathan Morris
We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful. -- Swami Vivekananda
In the end we must be merciful to the fallen, show grace to struggling, and be patient with the doubting. But when God's Word is clear we must not-and we cannot-back up, back off, back down, back out, or backslide from the truth. -- Rick Warren
To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness. -- William Pickens
It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. [...] The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world. -- Ovadia Yosef
I will be merciful, and I will believe in people. If I am to err, I will err on the side of mercy. I will give people the benefit of the doubt. I will bend, but not break, in order to give people the opportunity to grow and develop. -- David K. Bernard
To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness. -- William Pickens
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. -- Lawrence Durrell
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. -- Maya Angelou
The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics. -- Cat Stevens
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. -- Arthur Henderson
O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies. -- Saint Ambrose
I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God. -- Lars von Trier
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet. -- Saint Bernard
I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family. -- Jose Rizal
God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for. -- Beth Moore
Merciful God. Faithful God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Be merciful, moderate, and modest. -- Laozi
Magnificent God.Mighty God.Merciful God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
God is merciful.God is faithful. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
God is faithful.God is merciful. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong. -- Henry Newbolt
Pilate was merciful till it became risky. -- C. S. Lewis
Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets -- G. H. Hardy
Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt -- Anne Rice
God is as just as he is merciful. -- Thomas Brooks
Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful! -- Anne Bishop
Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind. -- Nancy Gibbs
We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible. -- Charlotte Bronte
A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I contact Allah the Holy the Merciful on a daily basis. -- Al-Saadi Gaddafi
God is merciful to all who repent and turn to Him. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Remember: in the end, it is the merciful who obtain mercy. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
For happy are the merciful for they shall, too, know mercy. -- David Paul Kirkpatrick
Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them. -- Jose Bergamin
A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust. -- R. C. Sproul
To follow Jesus means to share his merciful love for every human being. -- Pope Francis
It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release. -- Edward T. Lowe, Jr.
It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory -- Christopher Hitchens
My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was. -- Kurt Vonnegut
...there is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God. -- J.E.B. Spredemann
Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful. -- William Ralph Inge
Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God. -- David Attenborough
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful. -- Max Lucado
Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus. -- Ellen G. White
Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power. -- Ellen Hopkins
You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. -- Jonah
We are often more merciful to our animals [cats] than we are to each other. -- P. D. James
Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain. -- Joaquin Miller
[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured. -- Margaret Mitchell
Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity. -- Fethullah Gulen
God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . . -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. -- John Fletcher
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity. -- Robert E. Lee
Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one. -- Chilon of Sparta
No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant. -- Marcus Eremita
God is merciful cant we all be on the right track of faith but just using different roads? -- Ali Al-Ahmed
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. -- Khalil Gibran
God is merciful to those who want to love Him and who have placed their hopes in Him. -- Francis de Sales
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it -- Margaret Sanger
Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good. -- Omar Suleiman
God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. -- Alexandre Dumas
Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us. -- Neal A. Maxwell
The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it. -- Margaret Sanger
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. -- Alan Rickman
How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone? -- Stephen King
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. -- H. P. Lovecraft
The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves. -- John H Aughey
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! -- Wilkie Collins
If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him. -- Max Lucado
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. -- Mary Stewart
The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong. -- Richard Rohr
Be merciful until you can't be.Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.Then use that bullet. -- Clementine von Radics
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. -- Lisa Kleypas
It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly -- Al Pacino
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark -- Mary Stewart
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful. -- Martin Luther
The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet. -- Ilona Andrews
We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet. -- Annie Dillard
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God. -- Paul Washer
In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ. -- Pope John Paul II
Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture. -- Seth D.
God is so unique in giving His people ways to fellowship, witness, and remember what a mighty and merciful God He is. -- Monica Johnson
The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive -- Timothy Keller
The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing. -- Francis Chan
If there is heaven then there must be hell too, don't think that The God is merciful, he didn't create hell for himself. -- John Art
... the Wisdom of God ... rules all things, because it is infinitely more powerful and more loving and, above all, more merciful than ours. -- Father Jacques Philippe
When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success. -- W. Clement Stone
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window. -- Jules Renard
You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God! -- Tennessee Williams
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness. -- Mother Teresa
You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy. -- Mother Teresa

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